Office 365 & SharePoint Solutions Developer

Central Birmingham

Competitive package and benefits

This is a fantastic time to join West Midlands Trains as we embark on your new franchise to improve our passenger’s journeys. As part of the wider Abellio Group, West Midlands Trains Ltd, operates as a joint venture - West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway, delivering over 1,300 safe and reliable services per day for more than a 60 million passengers per year.  Since the start of our franchise in 2017 we have been committed to improving our services, investing a whopping £1 billion into the region’s network, £18million in the development of all our workforce.

We are looking to recruit an Office 365 & SharePoint Solutions Developer with the passion for building solutions using the Microsoft SharePoint platform. The candidate will be self-sufficient and, with clear requirements, able to develop an effective solution based on best practices. The role is primarily to build on an existing SharePoint solution in line with the evolving Digital Workplace strategy.  Alongside excellent communications skills with both system users and vendors you will be able to dentify, explain, and resolve complex problems.  Working as part of a team you will have the ability to handle multiple tasks and meet deadlines.

You will constantly seek to improve existing sites and applications based on new technologies and Office 365 and SharePoint features.  You will be customer focussed and have both strong technical and problem solving skills with a demonstrable ability to perform support in Windows environment.

In return we are looking for an individual with the following skills:

• Ability to work closely with user community in a professional manner.
• Technical creativity and ability to learn new technologies quickly and efficiently.
• Experience of hands-on SharePoint development experience creating SharePoint features and solutions including apps, content types, client-side rendering scripts and SPFx components (webparts and field customisers).
• Experience with design, development and deployment of enterprise level SharePoint portals using CSOM, JavaScript, jQuery, React, ASP.NET, C#, PowerShell scripting, CAML, LINQ, XML/XSLT, HTML and CSS.
• Proficiency in defining and maintaining Taxonomy Term Store(s)
• Experience with Azure (VMs, App Services, Hybrid Connections) and Office 365 development is a plus.
• Understanding of best practice information architecture, managed metadata, content types, enterprise search, custom refiners, and search-driven applications
• Knowledge of products to include Microsoft Cloud Technologies such as Office 365.
• Basic understanding of virtualisation technologies including Azure.

In addition to a competitive salary, West Midlands Trains offer a wealth of benefits including freefirst class travel on West Midlands Trains and other Abellio group trains for you, your partner and dependent children, 75% discount on all other train travel over most of the UK rail network, development opportunities to help you further your career with West Midlands Trains and the opportunity to participate in our healthcare scheme.